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Dr. Söhn, Janina

Kontakt

Photo Janina Söhn
Senior Researcher

Tel. +49 (0) 551-52205-61
Fax +49 (0) 551-52205-88

Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI)
Friedländer Weg 31
37085 Göttingen

E-Mail:
janina.soehn[at]sofi.uni-goettingen.de

Biographie

  • 2003 – 2000 Studies in Sociology (Diploma) with minors in Statistics and Political Science (1993 – 1995 studies in English Literature & Linguistics, Latin-American Studies and Sociology), Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2001 – 2002 Consultant on migration issues at the German Red Cross, General Secretariat
  • 2003 – 2007 Researcher at the social Science research Center Berlin (WZB), Programme on "Intercultural Conflicts and Societal Integration" (AKI)
  • 2007 – 2010 PhD grant of the Hans Böckler Foundation and associated researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Skill Formation and Labor Markets" (AAM)
  • 2010 Dr. phil. in Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, Thesis: "Bildungschancen von Migrantenkindern und die Bedeutung des Rechtsstatus: Aussiedler und ausländische Zugewanderte im Vergleich" [Educational Opprtunities of Immigrant Children and the Role of Legal Status: Comparing Ethnic German Immigrants (Aussiedler) and non-German Immigrants], supervisors:  Heike Solga and Anja Weiß
  • 2010 – 2012 Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Skill Formation and Labor Markets" (AAM) and "National Educational Panel Study" (NEPS)
  • 2012 Postdoc fellow at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, University of Bremen
  • 2013 Interim professor (Vertretungsprofessur) for sociology of migration at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (summer term)
  • since 2012 Senior researcher at the Soziologische Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) [Sociological Research Institute], at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen,currently involved in the project “

     

Awards

  • Doctoral dissertation award of the research network „Sociology of education“ of the German Sociological Association (DGS), 2012)

Fellowships and international experience

  • 07/2015 - 01/2017 several one- to three-week stays as a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research (New York), Department of Economics / Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Research, supported by the German Research Foundation 
  • 9-10/2009 Visiting scholar at Princeton University, Office for Population Research/ Center for Migration and Development (grant by Hans Böckler Foundation)
  • 09/1997 – 05/1998 DAAD Scholarship for graduate studies at the New School for Social Research, New York
  • three-year PhD grant by the Hans Böckler foundation